No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious — John Owen Copy Share Image
One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I think that the Vietnam War era is important because we tend not to want to revisit it. For black people, there… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs… — Gerhard Tersteegen Copy Share Image
The besetting sin of able men is impatience of contradiction and of criticism. Even those who do their best to resist the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When dealing with a difficult person, all that matters from a spiritual standpoint is how you react and treat the person. It's… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems. — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Come and let the healing, cleansing rays of Calvary play upon your hearts until the very seed of evil is sterilized. — Stuart Holden Copy Share Image
Faith stands or falls on the truth that the future with God is more satisfying than the one promised by sin. Where… — John Piper Copy Share Image
A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“I know that whatever the complex origins of my own homosexuality are, there have been conscious choices I've made to indulge -… — Wesley Hill Copy Share Image
Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be… — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
Our Heavenly Father loves us. He sent His Only Begotten Son to be our Savior. He knew that in mortality we would… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
“While waiting for Brenna to prepare the drink he did as directed and worked through their conversation. It would've gone faster had… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“beauty has been known to drive men wild, like the sirens did. Man’s challenge is to steer clear from it.” - Salvadore… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
When you're a child actor and play the precocious kid, the temptation is to wear leather pants or a cutoff shirt to… — Peter Billingsley Copy Share Image
